The Forgotten Soldier - War on the russian front - A true story

Guy Sajer

Cassell

1971

560 páginas

18h 40m

ISBN-13: 9780304352401

This devastating first-hand story of a young German soldier trapped in the lethal machinery of total war on the Eastern Front in World War II captures the real experience of modern war in all its shattering terror.

This is one man's true story of the bitter, killing cold of the Russian winter, of vicious combat against Russian partisans, and of the carnage of battles against a desperate but merciless Red Army with its mind-numbling artillery attacks and endless waves of infantry and tanks.

Posted to the crack Grosse Deutschland division, with its savage training where sadistic instructors will shoot down and remorseless world that relentlessly destroys any hope and ideals and where all that matters is brute survival fighting a relentless enemy.